What is the recovery period likely to be like after an aneurysm repair?

What is the recovery period likely to be like? That depends really on which modality you're looking at. So if I if I take open surgery, an example, you know, you'd have your operation that would probably take for a standard aneurysm that's below the kidney arteries. The operation might take two to three hours to do or a bit longer. and then there might be a period say of 48 hours on the intensive care unit and then maybe another seven days roughly in hospital to get to a point where they're where the patient is safe to be discharged home actually able to cope when they're discharged home. And after that you know this is largely anecdotal but it takes certainly from having spoken to patients it takes a long time to truly regain strength, appetite and baseline function, it takes a number of months in order for that to occur. With endovascular repair, particularly in the hospital at Imperial College where I was last employed and a number of units across the United Kingdom, we're looking at less than 24-hour stays for endovascular repair or EVAR, particularly in the current COVID environment where we want to minimise exposure to patients within a hospital and it's been demonstrated that's actually quite an attainable thing to do provided that remote monitoring of the patient is in place. There are pros and cons to each approach and I appreciate that I've kind of haven't put open repair in such a good light, but there are very strong indications and benefits to open repair as well, particularly in a younger cohort of patients. So yeah, I think, you know, in the short term, without a doubt, it takes longer to get over an open repair than it does an endovascular repair, but there are longer term benefits to open surgery, which we might be able to touch upon a bit later.